Ingress
 

For anyone who doesn't know what Ingress is, it's an augmented-reality game for Android and iOS.

During the supercollider experiments to find the Higgs boson, scientists unknowingly created a form of exotic matter ("XM"). This XM is like an intelligent form of data, spreading through the world, multiplying around sources of data transmission like active cell phones.

Landmarks, artwork, historical locations, and more have become XM portals, and you can see these portals using a scanner that you can load onto your phone. (The scanner is, in fact, the game software itself.)

A group calling itself The Enlightenment seeks to gather as much XM as possible, believing it to be the key to unlocking the next phase of human evolution.

Another group calling itself The Resistance believes that The Enlightenment's actions are dangerous, believing that their use of XM will enslave the human race. As such, it seeks to contain the XM to protect people.

Tomorrow, Saturday March 28th, an event called the Shonin Anomaly is taking place in Pasadena, CA. People from all over the country are going to gather to fight over control of the portals in order to capture special shards.

Are there any other Ingress agents on Trisphee? Any who will be attending the Anomaly?

Hm, I should dl this asap; I'm probably the Trisphite closest to Pasadena. (Does location matter?). This thing sounds pretty interesting.

Location does matter -- it uses your GPS location. That said, most places in the world have portals available.

Note that you can't possibly be the Trisphite closest to Pasadena because I LIVE in Pasadena. ;) But hey, if you can make it out (join the Resistance!) you can meet me here for the event.

If you ARE a Resistance member / want to join the Resistance, the rally point this morning is here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/34...!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 -- rally at 11:00 AM Pacific time.

If you're with the Enlightenment, I don't know where their rally point is, but you should try to find someone in the area that's already going.

The anomaly itself begins at 1:00 PM Pacific time, here: https://plus.google.com/111596025685...gl=US&hl=en-US -- both factions will meet here.

There are satellite events in Denver, CO, and Orlando, FL. Since I'm not registered with any of the groups there I don't have much information beyond these links: Denver, CO and Orlando, FL. Seek out members of the factions in those locations to coordinate.

EDIT: Just for fun:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n...ngressPERM.gif

1.) Blargh, guess I missed it.
2.) You're Resistance? That's surprising. (I DL'ed it yesterday to get my mind off stuff.)

I tried it then got fed up. Nothing was near me to claim lol.

I mean, the point of the game IS to walk around a lot.

1) Yep, guess so. :(

2) I probably would have picked Enlightenment if I were left to my own devices because I do have transhumanist leanings, but Ginny picked Resistance before I had a chance to create an account and I wanted to be on the same team. (Because it would be kinda silly to always be ruining each other's plans.) It works out for me, because most of Pasadena is Enlightenment so it means there's always stuff to do.

Okay, so the anomaly results are in.

The Enlightenment held more portals than the Resistance today, but the Resistance captured all of the shards -- both today and in the other three events in previous weeks. When the scores were totaled, the Resistance won decisively on points.

Go us!

It was seriously a lot of fun. The third cluster battle was really intense for me. Ten straight minutes of desperately trying to keep six portals intact with a small group of allies. Lost two of them -- though there were a couple times I was afraid we were going to lose our hold on a couple others, but we recovered.

Espy the nearest stuff to claim for me was a good 3 miles off so you know a six mile hike to and from home for one spot. Theres loafs on the city but again its at least 6 miles away from me.

Yeah, for you it's probably the kind of thing that you play when you do have to go drive somewhere.

I can't wait until I go back to Pittsburgh -- most of CMU is, according to a good friend and fellow Resistance member, Enlightened. Oh joy.

1. I play and it's fun.
2. Get in touch with your local faction
3. Enlightened FTW Smurfs(Resistance) will be crushed. JK
4. I hate server lag even though I have full signal.
5. The game is glitchy.

L8 Enlightened :P took less than 2 months. Again get in touch with your local faction.

Go eat a fly, toad. ;)

I'm still L6. (The anomaly was surprisingly not very productive for AP.)

Go eat a fly, toad. ;)

I'm still L6. (The anomaly was surprisingly not very productive for AP.)

Ugh, did a silly and spent all my xmps trying to capture a lv6 portal. Not the brightest newbie. Guess I'm back to finding portal to hack for a while.